House Update!!!

cannot believe i forgot to make a post about this, lol. anyway, the outside of our house is finally done. not without some frustrations of course.

windows, installed, curtains hung in the living room and bedroom for extra privacy when sitting on the couch in my sweats and not getting blinded by the streetlight at night and the sun in the morning, hahahaha.

i made the curtains for the bedroom, and other than them being a little shorter than i intended (dh would actually prefer they were a lot shorter), i love them! i made blackout curtains so its even better than the blinds we had in there before. thank you pinterest, lol.



the siding also got "finished". we're not exactly happy with the guy that did it or the work that's been done. we're still trying to get something done about the bathroom vents which we were wanting the siding guy to do because we don't want to mess with the siding (why would we pay for someone to do it if we were just going to do a few things ourselves?) and also, you wouldn't just put siding right over vents in any other house, why would you do it now and then leave it for us to do? so that's been a bit of a bone of contention that we're i'm trying to work through and get the guy to come back and fix it. we also need to talk to him about the dented up soffit after he installed the stone on the front door wall... we're not impressed and i think there was a lot of miscommunication on both sides. it doesn't help that dh wants me to line up trades and call everyone that needs to be called and then gets mad when things aren't done the way he wants them or they don't talk to him. well if i'm the point of contact, yeah, they will talk to me most times instead of you. ugh.

anyway... look back at our house when we bought it:

still had the cedar trees in the front, lol

a collage of the work done over the summer:

 

and a better and bigger pic of the finished product:

so now we can focus on getting the shed done (in this terrible weather alberta always has when we want to do outside work) and working inside. dh got a good start on the inside last weekend so i'm hoping he can keep up his motivation and get the electrical done so we can completely insulate the addition and keep the house warm instead of always having a bit of a chill all the time. we're gettign there, just slowly...